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Friday, 22 November 2019 05:56

Ganduje vs Sanusi: Court nullifies four new emirates created in Kano

Kano State High Court has dissolved four additional emirates created by Kano State Government. The creation of the emirates by Kano government under Governor Abdullahi Ganduje was criticised by many observers and residents of the state. Many saw it as a way of getting back at Emir of Kano, Mr Muhammad Sanusi ll, who hitherto was the only first-class emir in the state. The emir had been accused of being too critical of Mr Ganduje with some of his critics accusing him of supporting opposition politicians. The four other first-class emirates created by Kano government were those of Bichi, Rano,…

Friday, 22 November 2019 05:55

Kano govt reacts to court ruling sacking four new emirs

Kano State Government has reacted to Thursday’s court ruling dissolving the four new first-class emirates created by the state government and sacking the emirs appointed to head them. The state’s information commissioner, Mr Muhammad Garba, said: “despite the ruling, the government still recognizes them as First Class Emirs and will continue dealing with them as such.” The four new emirates for which Governor Abdullahi Ganduje named first-class emirs in May are Bichi, Rano, Karaye and Gaya. Mr Usman Na’Abba ruled on Thursday that the law creating the new emirates did not follow due process. Protests erupted in some of the…

Thursday, 21 November 2019 05:59

N1trn constituency projects: NASS hits back at Buhari

Twenty-four hours after it was alleged that members of National Assembly frittered away over N1 trillion earmarked for constituency projects in the last 10 years, members of House of Representatives and some senators elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have faulted President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari who spoke at a two-day National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in Public Sector at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja, lamented that citizens, particularly those in rural communities, had not felt the impact of the huge sum allocated by federal legislators as constituency projects. Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, contributing to a matter…

Thursday, 21 November 2019 05:58

FAAC: FG, States, LGs Share N702bn for October

Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) wednesday shared a total of N702.058 billion to the three tiers of government for October, 2019. This was announced in a communique read by Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris after FAAC meeting in Abuja. Idris said that the N702.058 billion comprised revenue from Value Added Tax (VAT), Exchange Gain and Gross Statutory Revenue. He explained that federal government received N295.7 billion; states got N192.697 billion, and local governments received N144.9 billion. He stated that oil-producing states received N49.1 billion as 13 per cent derivation revenue and revenue generating agencies got N19.472 billion…

Thursday, 21 November 2019 05:57

FG, states record N352bn revenue shortfall as fiscal crisis persists

Federal Government and the states of the federation missed their respective revenue targets gain for October, widening the 2019 budget deficits. At N894.09 billion, estimated federally-collected revenue (gross) in October 2019, fell below the monthly budget estimate of N1.246 trillion. The shortfall represents 28.2 percent of the monthly budget estimate and 0.9 percent of the preceding month’s receipt, a development that has been attributed to shortfall in both oil and non-oil revenue. The development, which shows that the country’s fiscal challenges remain, raised more worries as discordant tones were said to be trailing the new Finance bill currently at the…

Thursday, 21 November 2019 05:56

P&ID: FG adopts strategies to get contract quashed – Minister

Federal Government has started implementing enhanced strategies geared towards setting aside the entire P&ID liability and possible nullification of the contract. Mr Abubakar Malami, Attorney-General of the Federation made this known in a statement by Mr Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations in Abuja yesterday. P&ID, an Irish engineering company, had secured a $9.6 billion award against Nigeria following the non-execution of a 20-year gas and supply processing agreement (GSPA) the company had with the federal government. According to the Minister, under the new strategy, “no lawyers were replaced, but more lawyers with specialised skills are…

Thursday, 21 November 2019 05:53

We don’t support death penalty for hate speech - Govs

Nigeria Governors’ Forum on Wednesday rejected the proposed death penalty for hate speech in the bill at National Assembly. The governors also expressed their readiness to conclude negotiations with labour unions on the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage before the December 31 deadline. The governors spoke at the end of their seventh meeting in Abuja, presided over by Vice-Chiarman of NGF and Governor of Sokoto State, Mr Aminu Tambuwal. Answering questions from journalists, Tambuwal urged National Assembly to conduct a public hearing on the hate speech bill to aggregate the views of Nigerians. He said, “I’m not sure I…

Wednesday, 20 November 2019 06:17

Buhari attacks National Assembly, says N1tr wasted on constituency projects

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said N1 trillion had been spent on constituency projects in 10 years with no direct bearing on the lives of the ordinary Nigerians. “It is on record that in the past 10 years, N1 trillion has been appropriated for constituency projects yet the impact of such huge spending on the lives and welfare of ordinary Nigerians can hardly be seen,” he stated. Speaking at the National summit on ‘’Diminishing Corruption in the Public Service’’ organised by Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) in collaboration with Office of the Secretary to the Government of…

Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:18

Perm Sec, pregnant wife, 2 kids burnt to death in Benue

A family of four died in a fire which engulfed their residence at the Quararafa Quarters in Makurdi, capital of Benue State, yesterday. According to a witness, the fire, which started at about 2am, trapped the family of Mr Seker Akaa, an acting Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Science and Technology. Akaa was said to have been burnt to death with his wife and two children before the arrival of the Fire Service, which eventually quenched the fire around 5.30am. Although the cause of the fire was not known at the time of this report, sources said the…

Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:17

Anti-government protests cripple major Iraqi port, oil field

Anti-government demonstrations in southern Iraq blocked roads leading to the country’s main port and an oil field on Monday, while the Iraqi central bank reduced working hours because of the ongoing unrest, security officials said. Protesters burned tires, blocking the roads to the Umm Qasr port, responsible for the bulk of the country’s commodities imports, a security official said in the city of Basra. Protesters also cut roads leading to a major oil field in the southern province of Basra. Demonstrators used the same tactics to cut access to roads leading to the airport in the holy city of Najaf.…

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Monday, 18 November 2019 05:30

Blackout looms as electricity generation companies threaten shutdown over charge

Nigeria may experience widespread blackout soon as power generation companies have unanimously agreed to call the bluff of Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company by shutting down power production and supply. At a briefing in Abuja on Sunday, Executive Secretary, Association of Power Generation Companies, an umbrella body for the power firms, Mrs Joy Ogaji, said NBET’s insistence to impose a 0.75 per cent administrative charge on Gencos for payment of gas invoices was the reason for the imminent power shutdown by Gencos. It was also gathered that the indebtedness of NBET to power generation companies had risen above N1tn. NBET…

Monday, 18 November 2019 05:26

Iran’s top leader warns ‘thugs’ as protests reach 100 cities

Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday cautiously backed the government’s decision to raise gasoline prices by 50% after days of widespread protests, calling those who attacked public property during demonstrations “thugs” and signaling that a potential crackdown loomed. The government shut down internet access across the nation of 80 million people to staunch demonstrations that took place in a reported 100 cities and towns. That made it increasingly difficult to gauge whether unrest continued. Images published by state and semiofficial media showed the scale of the damage in images of burned gas stations and banks, torched vehicles and roadways littered with…

Sunday, 17 November 2019 06:33

Why Osinbajo’s aides were sacked - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said the recent sack of some presidential aides was “aimed at enhancing service delivery to Nigerians”. He spoke as he returned to the country Friday, after his 15–day holiday in the United Kingdom. A statement by his spokesperson, Mr Garba Shehu, quoted Mr Buhari as saying the decision had been given ‘ethnic and political’’ interpretations. ‘‘They said 35 people were sacked in the vice president’s office. We just created some ministries and we reorganized and people are giving it ethnic and political dimensions. It is unfortunate,’’ the statement quoted the president as saying. Buhari said he…

Sunday, 17 November 2019 06:30

Iran's protests against fuel price hike turn political

Riot police and security forces clashed with demonstrators in Tehran and dozens of cities across Iran on Saturday, Iranian news agencies and social media said, as protests against a rise in gasoline prices turned political. The reports said demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans around the country, a day after the government increased the price of regular gasoline to 15,000 rials ($0.13) a litre from 10,000 rials and rationed it. State television said police clashed with what it called rioters in some cities and fired teargas to disperse them. One person was killed and several were wounded in the city of Sirjan…

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